In many ways, Mastodon feels like rewinding the clock on social media back to the early days of Twitter and Facebook. On the consume side, that means that your home feed has no algorithm (this can be disorienting at first).
Practically, it means that you see only what you want to see and only see it linearly. You never wonder “why am I seeing this and how do I make it go away?”. Content can only enter your home feed via your followed tags or handles and the feed is linear like the early days of social media.
And I’m strangely okay with this.
If the idiots of the masses are going to follow individual idiots on one platform. Keep them there. Things like Mastodon and the concept of the fediverse is just too much for their little one-dimensional brains to handle.